The success and energy created by Venture4change raised an issue that’s important to socially-minded companies and non-profit organizations alike:

How do we keep the momentum of an event going?

How do we connect and collect the ideas that were generated?

How do we turn them into action?

This community was created to solve that challenge.

Join, make friends, share ideas, contribute!

Here’s what you can do

• Join a forum or group and discuss ideas related to Venture4Change…or to any topic you choose. Don’t see what you’re looking for? create a group
• See someone you know? Make friends. Don’t know me? Make friends anyway. I’m pretty nice.
• Check the activity stream to see what people are talking about
• Add your own blog post or leave comments on what others have written

This site isn’t bug free so please don’t hesitate to let us know if something isn’t working, or if you need help. We’ll keep working to improve and upgrade the site in the coming months, and we expect a big announcement for Capacity Waterloo in the near future as well!

Thanks for visiting!

Trevor

We’re adding a Twitter wall at Venture4Change, for all our Twitter fans. Follow us before, during, and after!

Check out Tuesday’s Globe and Mail article on Brandaid Haiti and its work in Jacmel. Tony Piggot, one of our country’s sharpest marketing minds, is kicking off Venture4Change. Along with Cameron Brohman and Academy-award winning director, Paul Haggis, Tony founded Brandaid Project as a radical new idea bringing modern marketing, design and celebrity power to developing world master artisan communities so they can gain access to worldwide and better markets.

Brandaid started in Haiti and the recent earthquake had a huge impact on Brandaid artisans. Come hear how Brandaid is responding to the challenge.

Ben & Jerry’s has paved the way for business as a tool for social change. On March 29, come hear Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s, tell us how they did it.

We’ve all heard some of their fun and famous flavours – Cherry Garcia, Chunky Monkey, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough – but Ben & Jerry’s is perhaps as well known for its focus on doing business while doing good. Community action, sustainable and safe food production, Peace Pops, and the PartnerShop Program. All part of the ice cream maker’s social mission, which has been part of its three-part mission statement since the ’80’s.

“If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless,” Jerry has said. “It’s a process of innovation.” Business as a Tool for Social Change: An Afternoon of Radical Business Philosophy with Jerry Greenfield will be a tribute to innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit, full of anecdotes and the radical business philosophy that is at the heart of Ben & Jerry’s.